Emergency Bills
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Blue Catfish - Population Control [SB-960]
[Animals ]
[Agriculture ]
[Water ]
[Environmental ]
[Food ]
Establishing that regulations of the Department of Natural Resources governing the catching of blue catfish shall establish a pilot program authorizing the use of electrofishing, shall authorize the use of finfish trotlines of up to 2,400 feet in length, may not set a limit on the number of hooks used, and shall authorize the use of hooks that are not corrodible; and requiring the Department of Agriculture to report on or before September 1, 2025, outlining needs and best practices for collecting, processing, and marketing blue catfish.
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Mautz
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Annual Corrective Bill [SB-784]
[Law Enforcement ]
Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that the Act is not intended to affect any law other than to correct technical errors; and providing for the correction of certain errors and obsolete provisions by the publishers of the Annotated Code.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 142 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Immigration Enforcement - Sensitive Locations - Guidelines and Policies (Protecting Sensitive Locations Act) [HB-1006]
[Immigration ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines relating to immigration enforcement at sensitive locations; and requiring State agencies that operate at sensitive locations to adopt certain policies or provide notice of a decision not to adopt certain policies.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana M Stein
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund, Protection of Federal Benefits, and Powers of the Attorney General - Alterations (Protect Our Federal Workers Act) [SB-683]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund; authorizing funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account to be expended to assist in funding costs in connection with a closure, relocation, or mass layoff of a unit of the federal government, or other similar circumstances; and altering the purpose of the Fund and the eligibility criteria to receive loans from the Fund.
Sponsored by: Sen. James C. Rosapepe
Favorable With Amendments Report By Budget And Taxation on 04/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (The Monica Cooper Prerelease Act) [SB-632]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Altering the required specifications for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of General Services to direct the procurement processes for the construction of a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals; requiring the implementation of comprehensive prerelease services for certain individuals by September 1, 2025; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Washington
Rereferred To Judiciary on 04/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Insurance Administration and Maryland Department of Health - Workgroup to Study Pharmacy Benefits Managers [HB-813]
[Insurance ]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration and the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, to convene a workgroup to study and review reimbursement for pharmacists; and requiring the workgroup to submit an interim report by December 31, 2025, and a final report on their findings and recommendations to certain committees of the General Assembly by December 31, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 730 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt [HB-765]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Nonprofit ]
Authorizing a hospital, under certain circumstances, to sell the medical debt of patients if the debt is sold to a governmental unit or an entity that is under contract with the unit or a nonprofit organization for the purpose of canceling the debt; requiring that a hospital's financial policy require the hospital to dismiss actions pending against a patient for the collection of debt that was sold and prohibit the hospital from engaging in specified collection activities; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 750 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Local Government - Municipal Annexation - Petition and Referendum [SB-505]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
Allowing a certain redevelopment authority that owns real property in an area to be annexed with fewer than 20 eligible residents to sign a petition for annexation and vote in the annexation referendum.
Sponsored by: Sen. Craig Zucker
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/11/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Port of Deposit State Historical Park - Size and Scope [SB-477]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Arts and Culture ]
Altering the size and scope of the Port of Deposit State Historical Park; extending the deadline for the Bainbridge Development Corporation to transfer certain property to the Department of Natural Resources to June 1, 2026; and altering the purpose for which a certain appropriation may be used.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cecil County Senators
First Reading Education, Energy, And The Environment on 01/23/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Department of Commerce - Nonprofit Organizations Navigator - Established [HB-541]
[Nonprofit ]
[Grants ]
[Funding ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
Establishing a nonprofit organizations navigator within the Department of Commerce to provide technical assistance and work with nonprofits and units of State government to resolve complexities and delays in State grant-making processes, collect and share certain information, and represent nonprofit organizations' interests and concerns as a member of the Maryland Efficient Grant Application Council; and requiring the Department to report to certain committees of the General Assembly on the implementation of the navigator.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 315 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Local Government - Municipal Annexation - Petition and Referendum [HB-532]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
Allowing a certain redevelopment authority that owns real property in an area to be annexed with fewer than 20 eligible residents to sign a petition for annexation and vote in the annexation referendum.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ben Barnes
Hearing 1/30 At 1:30 P.m. on 01/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Pharmacy Benefits Administration - Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Pharmacy Benefits Managers [SB-438]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
Altering the reimbursement levels for drug products that the Maryland Medical Assistance Program is required to establish and that pharmacy benefits managers that contract with a pharmacy on behalf of a managed care organization are required to reimburse the pharmacy; and altering the definition of "purchaser" for purposes of certain provisions of law regulating pharmacy benefits managers to include certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence K. Lam
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Higher Education Commission - Academic Program Approval - Revisions [HB-479]
[Education ]
Requiring certain nonpublic institutions of higher education to submit a certain letter of intent regarding intended new graduate level programs to the Maryland Higher Education Commission in a certain manner and every 6 months; and repealing a certain provision of law that limited which institutions of higher education could propose or implement certain academic programs for certain graduate level programs under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ben Barnes
First Reading Appropriations on 01/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Workgroup on Social Worker Requirements for Licensure - Extension and Duties [SB-379]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
Extending the termination date for the Workgroup on Social Worker Requirements for Licensure to June 30, 2027; altering the duties of the Workgroup to include an examination of alterations made to the examination developed by the Association of Social Work Boards and implemented beginning in 2026; and requiring the Workgroup to submit a report on whether to continue to use examinations developed by the Association of Social Work Boards as a requirement for licensure on or before December 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne C. Benson
Motion Recommit To Committee (senator Beidle) Adopted on 03/12/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Department of Commerce – Nonprofit Organizations Navigator – Established [SB-365]
[Nonprofit ]
[Grants ]
[Funding ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
Establishing a nonprofit organizations navigator within the Department of Commerce to provide technical assistance and work with nonprofits and units of State government to resolve complexities and delays in State grant-making processes, collect and share certain information, and represent nonprofits interest and concerns as a member of the Maryland Efficient Grant Application Council; and requiring the Department to report to certain committees of the General Assembly on the implementation of the navigator.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl C. Kagan
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 314 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program [HB-446]
[Animals ]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Science ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing the Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program in the Department of Natural Resources to curb the spread of the invasive blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries; requiring the Department to expand the use of practices determined to be effective under the Program; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2025, on its findings and recommendations based on the Pilot Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barrie S. Ciliberti
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 172 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Sign Language Interpreters – Licensing Requirement [HB-329]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Disabilities ]
Altering from January 1, 2025, to July 1, 2026, the date by which an individual must be licensed by the State Board of Sign Language Interpreters before providing certain sign language interpretation services or making certain representations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Heather Bagnall
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Election Law - Municipal Elections - Administration [HB-322]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
Authorizing the State Administrator of Elections to enter into memoranda of understanding with municipal corporations that allow the State Administrator to work collaboratively with a municipal corporation to support the administration of the municipal corporation's elections; authorizing the State Administrator to lease a voting system or other equipment used to administer an election for use in a municipal election; repealing the authority of a local board to lease a voting system to certain entities within the county; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Greg Wims
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 124 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Sign Language Interpreters - Licensing Requirement [SB-297]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Disabilities ]
Altering from January 1, 2025, to July 1, 2026, the date by which an individual must be licensed by the State Board of Sign Language Interpreters before providing certain sign language interpretation services or making certain representations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nancy King
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Government - Grants and Contracts - Reimbursement of Indirect Costs [HB-300]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Nonprofit ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Altering the rate at which nonprofit organizations receiving State-funded grants or contracts may be reimbursed for indirect costs to match the rate established under relevant federal guidelines; requiring the Maryland Efficient Grant Application Council to study and make certain recommendations to the Department of Budget and Management regarding the entire grants life cycle; requiring the Council to submit a report on its full recommendations to the Department and the General Assembly by July 1, 2027; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 162 on 04/22/2025